- The theme for 2016-17 in all divisions is Presidential Firsts.
- In Junior/Senior, a second theme is Foreign Affairs. Also, Jr/Sr clues for #25-44 may involve U.S. Leaders Group 2: Susan B. Anthony, William Jennings Bryan, Clarence Darrow, Eugene Debs, W.E.B. Du Bois, Huey Long, Gloria Steinem
- Note: Elementary/Middle Divisions play presidents #25-44 in 2016-17.
| 1. George Washington 2. John Adams 3. Thomas Jefferson 4. James Madison 5. James Monroe 6. John Quincy Adams 7. Andrew Jackson 8. Martin Van Buren 9. William Henry Harrison 10. John Tyler 11. James Polk 12. Zachary Taylor |
#1-12 As I was being sworn in as president, the financial system of the U.S. was falling apart. In New York, New Orleans, and London, there were commercial and financial failures. By May, banks suspended payment of gold and silver coins for paper money. To this day, economists and historians argue whether my predecessor’s policies caused the panic or whether other forces were involved. My predecessor was from the same party as me.
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| 13. Millard Fillmore 14. Franklin Pierce 15. James Buchanan 16. Abraham Lincoln 17. Andrew Johnson 18. Ulysses S. Grant 19. Rutherford Hayes 20. James Garfield 21. Chester A. Arthur 22./24. Grover Cleveland 23. Benjamin Harrison |
#13-24 I was the son of a Baptist preacher who had emigrated from northern Ireland. I graduated from Union College, taught school, and was admitted to the bar. Early in the Civil War, I served as Quartermaster General of the State of New York.
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| 25. William McKinley 26. Theodore Roosevelt 27. William Taft 28. Woodrow Wilson 29. Warren Harding 30. Calvin Coolidge 31. Herbert Hoover 32. Franklin Roosevelt 33. Harry Truman 34. Dwight Eisenhower |
#25-34 By the end of my presidency, I was considered so politically toxic that my successor essentially refused to have anything to do with me between his November election and March inauguration. Shunning the sitting president was not in the nation’s interest. Banks were failing daily and the nation couldn’t wait several months to attack its financial problems.
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| 35. John F. Kennedy 36. Lyndon B. Johnson 37. Richard Nixon 38. Gerald Ford 39. Jimmy Carter 40. Ronald Reagan 41. George H.W. Bush 42. Bill Clinton 43. George W. Bush 44. Barack Obama |
#35-44 Thanks to a combat injury, I suffered back pain constantly so that I often used crutches or a cane to get around, though rarely in public. In the White House, I usually took a swim late in the morning, ate a quick lunch, then napped for exactly 45 minutes. I loved spy novels, especially James Bond.
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